Vote counting is under way in Yemen, a day after a presidential election that was expected to confirm Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the current vice-president, as the country's new leader.<br /><br />Electoral officials said on Wednesday that voter turnout reached 60 per cent nationwide, despite threats of violence and boycott calls in some parts of the Arabian peninsula nation.<br /><br />Hadi, the 66-year-old former deputy to Yemen's long-time leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, was the lone candidate in the elections as part a US-backed one-candidate election.<br /><br />Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Sanaa, Yemen's capital.
